In this section, you’ll find content about work created for and performed outside of conventional theatre spaces. Artists describe the reasons for making such work, and the challenges that come along with it. Consider starting with Anne Hamburger’s “The Why and How of Site-Specific” or Gab Cody’s essay on writing for immersive and site-informed experiences.
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Essay
The Tempest Crashes Ashore at Point Montara
by Nicole Gluckstern
18 February 2026
Podcast
Re-sensitizing to Place in Site-Specific Performance
by Tara Khozein, Martin Boross, Matthew Glassman, Wanda Strukus
20 January 2026
Essay
Choreographing Attention in Spatial-Relational Practices
Andrew Alexander offers tools for appreciating the art and value of live performance while reflecting on gloATL's 2013 public art project, Liquid Culture.
Berkeley Shakespeare Company’s site-responsive The Tempest took over the Point Montara Lighthouse Youth Hostel. Nicole Gluckstern explores the ways the location informed production elements and created a communal experience for actors and audiences.
How can theatre artists enter a space as outsiders and create work there in a way that does not fall into our habits of colonialism and consumerism? In this episode, Tara and Martin sit down with Wanda Strukus and Matthew Glassman at Chocolate Church Arts Center in Bath, Maine.
A dazzling performance art scene is being born in Hungary, which, though quite small, boasts artists from all walks of life. Puha means “soft” in Hungarian, and PUHA stands for Performative Unity in the Hungarian Arts. It is an ambitious project by theatremaker and performer Zsófia Kozma and choreographer-performer Bíborka Béres that brings makers and creators of the Hungarian performance art scene together for discussions. From dancer to set designer, jazz musician to game designer, we talk with all sorts of people about thoughts, approaches, challenges, and ideas in their work. They sit down to explore topics like climate change, gender, queerness, improvisation, and public space in order to replace division and competition by fostering unity and dialogue in the field.
A series taking an in-depth look at the process, start to finish, of working collaboratively on a site-specific theatre project with a community to animate a historical site.
